Publisher's Description:

HTTP client component for communicating with HTTP servers.

- Send GET, POST, or HEAD requests to an HTTP server.
- Supports SSL.
- Can save cookies to a persistant XML-based file store.
- Can automatically add cookies from a persistent file store to HTTP requests.
- Sophisticated caching capabilities.
- Cache can extend across multiple hard drives.
- Supports Basic HTTP authentication (login/password).
- Supports HTTP proxies.
- Supports two caching algorithms: LMFactor and constant-freshness.
- Can automatically follow redirects.
- Provides read and connect timeout properties.
- Allows for custom HTTP request headers to be added to any request.
- Handles international (non-English) web pages including Asian and Middle Eastern languages.
- Automatically manages a pool of connections with HTTP servers.
- Can mimic FireFox or Internet Explorer.
- Provides access to all HTTP response header fields.
- Supports XMLHTTP.
- Supports multipart/form-data for easy uploads to HTTP server.